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World Athletics chief Seb Coe: 'We stand firm against Russian athletes taking part'

Coe rejected Moscow's claims of a 'personal obsession' with banning Russian athletes and reflected on his term and the crisis at FIFA.

Euronews

Leading athletes still waiting on large sums owed by ill-fated Grand Slam Track

Agents for many Grand Slam Track stars say they are yet to receive 50% of earnings nearly 15 months on from the collapse of Michael Johnson’s venture

The Guardian - UK

Audrey Werro holds off Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson to win European 800m gold

The Swiss runner set a 1:54.81sec championship best to win European 800m gold, ahead of Keely Hodgkinson in 1:55.01

The Guardian - UK

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Academic badass Amy Hunt sets sights on four golds and place in European history

British sprinting sensation and Cambridge graduate with a passion for the Italian renaissance is creating a masterpiece of her own

The Guardian - UK

Seb Coe insists empty seats in Birmingham won’t harm London’s bid for 2029 worlds

World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, rejected suggestions that poor crowds at the European championships could harm London’s bid for the 2029 worlds

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: History shrugs off Keir and makes room for brilliant Kerr

A low-key PM leaves the stage briskly, while a breathtaking athlete misses out on the attention he deserves

The Guardian - UK

GB Paralympic icon Sarah Storey retires after making LA 2028 decision

Storey ends her career as a 19-time Paralympic gold-medalist, the first of which came in 1992

The Independent UK

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Rob Brydon, Joseph Fiennes and Rishi Sunak in the crowds for Wimbledon day five

Stars were snapped in the crowds on the fifth day of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships.

Evening Standard

Sir Craig Reedie obituary

Olympic administrator who helped secure the Games for London in 2012 and stood up to Russia over doping

The Guardian - UK

Keely Hodgkinson roasts West Ham’s trophy cabinet over London Stadium row

West Ham insist their matches at the London Stadium should take ‘priority’ over a bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships

The Independent UK

West Ham stadium stance could block London’s World Athletics Championships bid, warns Coe

Sebastian Coe has warned that London’s bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships could be scuppered by West Ham’s refusal to allow their stadium to be used in September

The Guardian - UK

Tories urge Sebastian Coe to run for London mayor as poll shows he could beat Sadiq Khan

Polling suggests the former Olympic champion could be the best chance the Conservatives have to defeat Labour and launch a London revival

Evening Standard

Cycling, crystals and cutting-edge science: the secrets of Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell’s success

The training duo who oversaw famous medal success in Torun believe the best is yet to come for their athletes

The Guardian - UK

Mandatory genetic sex tests for female athletes branded a ‘backwards step’ in new report

Mandatory testing was brought in last year, with World Athletics president Sebastian Coe declaring it would "protect and promote the integrity of women’s sport"

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

No guarantee Grand Slam Track will be allowed back, warns World Athletics

The Michael Johnson-led Grand Slam Track has been warned by World Athletics that it may not be permitted to return in 2026 even if it pays off its huge debts

The Independent UK

Winter Olympic federations push back on proposal to add new sports to future Games

Sebastian Coe’s suggestion of adding cyclo-cross and cross-country to the Winter Olympics has been met with resistance by traditional winter sports federations

Cycling News

Snow and ice sports organisers say adding cyclocross to Olympic Winter Games would 'dilute brand, heritage and identity'

'If they were super popular sports they would already be in the Summer Games, and they're not' says International Biathlon Union's Secretary General

Cycling News

'Nothing motivates people to try a new sport like the Olympic Games' - Cyclocross plays a role equation for US success at elite level

USA Cycling's Brendan Quirk explains four-year plan to 2028 LA Olympics and thinks a cycling discipline in Winter Games would be 'off the charts' in Salt Lake City

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The Independent UK

Sebastian Coe pushes for a cross-country running race at the 2030 Winter Olympics

Sebastian Coe would love to see a cross-country running race brought back to the Olympics at the 2030 Winter Games

The Independent UK

World Athletics blames employees for $1.7M taken in 'systematic theft'

World Athletics says it has lost more than $1.7 million to “systematic theft” by its own employees

Treadmills just became a global sport – Technogym’s new Run X could change running forever

Run X competitions will let runners worldwide race against each other on connected treadmills

Cycling Weekly

'It would change everything': is cyclo-cross coming to the Winter Olympics?

'It would be huge', says national coach following Lord Coe's prediction that it could feature in the 2030 Winter Games

The Guardian - UK

Cross-country running and cyclocross could be added to Winter Olympics by 2030

Cross-country and cyclocross have a good chance of being added to the 2030 Winter Olympics in France, Sebastian Coe has predicted

The National (Scotland)

Expert issues warning over World Athletics bringing back sex testing

WORLD Athletics’s reintroduction of sex testing at the World Championships 2025 is "a threat to all women", an expert has said.

The Independent UK

Enhanced Games: Lord Sebastian Coe refuses to discuss controversial event

The World Athletics president faced the media after former world 100m champion Fred Kerley became the first track athlete to join the Enhanced Games.

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